FULL Margaret in Love and War (Laura Schwendinger) New York 2026 Marnie Breckenridge

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Margaret in Love and War   
• Composer: Schwendinger Laura  
• Libretto: Ginger Strand    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space, New York  
• Recorded: April 28, 2026
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Marnie Breckenridge, Patrick Wilhelm, Rachel Calloway, William Ferguson, Pablo Veguilla, Julia Rottmayer, Rachel Jackson, Jonathan Lawlor
• Conductor: Eiki Isomura  
• Orchestra: chamber ensemble  
• Stage Director: Chris Alden  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Laura Schwendinger  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Composer Laura Schwendinger and librettist Ginger Strand’s opera about Margaret Fuller, a 19th century American journalist and women’s rights advocate, receives its world premiere in a semi-staged production. “Margaret in Love and War” features Marnie Breckenridge in the titular role directed by Chris Alden and a chamber ensemble led by conductor Eiki Isomura.

  The opera recounts how Margaret Fuller, America’s first female war correspondent arrived in Rome in 1847 to report for the New York Tribune during the Italian civil war. Fuller found herself at the heart of the Risorgimento, as the Pope fled and Rome declared itself a people’s republic. Her thrilling account from the front lines, while forces gathered to put down the revolt, shared Italy’s story with the world. Friends with revolutionaries like Garibaldi and Mazzini, she fell in love with a nobleman Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child, but her marriage was never accepted by his family. After the failure of the revolution all three died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the US. Fuller’s body was never recovered. History has denied Margaret Fuller her rightful place as one of the most eloquent intellectuals of the 19th century, the person to unite the cause of a democratic Italy with the ideal of America. “Their cause is ours,” Margaret wrote.

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